Devillers
\də.vi.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“Devillers” is uncommon French (frequency #77,419 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,419
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devillers · Devillers · French
Devillers · rank #77,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,419
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH devinait
Nearest frequency peer: devinait (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Devillers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- desséchés
desséchés
22,586 corpus weight
- deve
deve
22,584 corpus weight
- Devillers
Devillers
22,582 corpus weight
- devinait
devinait
22,581 corpus weight
- dijonnaise
dijonnaise
22,580 corpus weight
- Dirac
Dirac
22,579 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Devillers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Devillers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \də.vi.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Devillers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Devillers is uncommon French at frequency #77,419 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \də.vi.lɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Devillers in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Devillers, spelled D-E-V-I-L-L-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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